This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the infl uence of that fateful day is pervasive if not direct. Marikana has, for instance, made us look differently at the police and at how order is imposed on society. Monique Marks and David Bruce write that the massacre ‘has come to hold a central place in the analysis of policing, and broader political events since 2012’.
The chapters highlight a range of current concerns – political, economic and social. David Dickinson’s chapter looks at the life of the poor in a township from within. In contrast, the chapter on foreign policy by Garth le Pere analyses South Africa’s approach to international relations in the Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma eras. Anthony Turton’s account, ‘When gold mining ends’ is a chilling forecast of an impending environmental catastrophe. Both Devan Pillay and Noor Nieftagodien focus attention on the left and, in different ways, ascribe its rise to a new politics in the wake of Marikana.
The essays in NSAR 5: Beyond Marikana present a range of topics and perspectives of interest to general readers, but the book will also be a useful work of reference for students and researchers.
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Introduction : Political reconfigurations in the wake of Marikana — Prishani Naidoo
Part One
Chapter 1: Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana — Noor Nieftagodien
Chapter 2: Labour and community struggles 1994-2014 — Marcel Paret
Chapter 3: Half full or half empty? The Numsa moments and the prospects of left revitalisation — Devan Pillay
Introduction to Part Two — Devan Pillay
Chapter 4: The South African economy: The minerals-energy-finance complex redubbed? — Samantha Ashman
Chapter 5: Between a rock and a hard place: State-business relations in the mining sector 86 — Ross Harvey
Chapter 6: The platinum belt strike wave: Breakdown in the institutionalisation of industrial conflict — Crispen Chinguno
Chapter 7: When gold mining ends: An environmental catastrophe for Johannesburg? — Anthony Turton
Introduction to Part Three — Roger Southall
Chapter 8: Constitutionalism: An ‘unqualified human good’? — Pierre de Vos
Chapter 9: People’s Parliament? Do citizens influence South Africa’s legislatures? — Samantha Waterhouse
Chapter 10: Corruption — Ivor Sarakinsky
Chapter 11: Marikana and the politics of public order policing — Monique Marks and David Bruce
Chapter 12: ‘In December we are rich, in January we are poor’: Consumption, saving, stealing and insecurity in the kasi — David Dickinson
Introduction to Part Four — Gilbert M Khadiagala
Chapter 13: The evolution of South Africa’s foreign policy — Garth le Pere
Chapter 14: South Africa, the BRICS and human rights: In bad company? — Karen Smith
Chapter 15: Trading with the frenemy: How South Africa depends on African trade — Rod Alence
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Rod Alence is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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